Example sentences of "have been [verb] that [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that whereas political science tends to be mainly concerned with the machinery of government and the mechanisms of public administration , the sociological analysis of political phenomena is concerned with the wider interplay between politics and social structure , between political and societal processes ( Coser , 1966 ) . |
| 2 | Finally , it has been suggested that if native speakers of English who have not been taught phonetics feel that and are each ‘ one sound ’ , we should be guided by their ‘ intuitions ’ and prefer the one-phoneme analysis . |
| 3 | It has been held that while mezzanine platforms erected in a warehouse could be regarded as plant for capital allowance purposes , ancillary lighting could not ( p 119 ) . |
| 4 | It has been shown that if small bubbles of gas in a liquid were compressed suddenly , they would undergo very great temperature changes of the order of several thousand degrees centigrade . |
| 5 | Our mistake in the past has been to assume that because other forms of life perceive things differently from us , they are necessarily inferior : they are not . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that if present rates of divorce and fertility continue , one in 22 under-fives will have divorced parents , and one in five 16-year-olds . |
| 7 | It had been decided that while certain HN units and courses should be developed by colleges , SCOTVEC would undertake to develop HN units and courses particularly in those areas where a significant number of colleges were invited or where units of wider application could be identified . |